The European Parliament and Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, today (16 September) ratified a political and trade deal between the European Union and Ukraine, completing their role in a treaty that has already shaped the history of Ukraine. In both parliaments, deputies overwhelmingly backed the treaty. Approval had been so assumed...

Author(s): Dan Alexe 51571914.jpg The parliaments of Ukraine and the European Union have simultaneously ratified today the long-disputed agreement on closer ties. The Association Agreement establishes a deep political association and free-trade area between Ukraine and the EU. Refusal to sign the same agreement sparked months of protests leading...

The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday ratified a landmark EU trade agreement that strengthens the former Soviet state’s ties with the West in what President Petro Poroshenko a “first step” towards European Union membership. …read more Source: France...